WITH her dewy complexion, smooth skin and glossy hair Tonia Buxton looks a decade younger than her 47 years. However the chef doesn’t attribute her youthful appearance to expensive creams or A-list treatments but to common ingredients you can find on any supermarket grocery aisle: feta, olives and lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. From…
They say you are what you eat. And that seems particularly true for television cook Tonia Buxton. She credits her strict Mediterranean diet for the fact that at 46 she has the fertility levels of a woman in her thirties. The mother of four, who is nicknamed the Greek Nigella, was astonished to be told…
Serves: 8 Ready in: 30 minutes 6 sheets filo pastry 4 tbsp. olive oil 100g flaked almonds 50g chopped hazelnuts 50g unrefined brown sugar 3 tsps. ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground mastic (optional) 3 dessert apples, peel on, cored and thinly sliced 3 dessert pears, peel on, cored and thinly sliced Zest & juice…
There is a fountain of youth, and it’s GREEK! Our guest cook TONIA BUXTON believes the food of her homeland is not only HEALTHY but also ANTI-AGEING. Click here to read the full article
Every Easter I get together with my girlfriends and we make Flaounes, just like my Mum used to with Aunty Veni. There is much arguing about the amount of spice, mainly cinnamon we add; I like lots, raisins too. The saying ‘less is more’ is completely lost on me. But you must make flaounes to…
This recipe is super-easy and it tastes super-wonderful. The spices with the chickpeas and spinach just perfect this dish. If you want you can use any other firm white fish instead of cod. SERVES 2 Ready in: 35 minutes 2 x 175g cod fillets 4 tbsp natural Greek yogurt ½ tsp ground coriander ½ tsp…
This is a wonderful way to use a glut of tomatoes (of which there’s a surplus in Greece over the summer!). It is delicious as part of a meze or just good on its own with wholemeal village bread. SERVES 4 Ready in: 2 hours 15 minutes 450g tomatoes on the vine, halved 3 garlic…
SERVES 4 Ready in: 50 minutes 500g mixed seafood (scallops, prawns, squid, mussels; could also include white fish if you like) 250g wholemeal lumaconi rigati (giant pasta shells) or penne 4 cloves garlic, chopped finely 5 shallots, diced 1 large courgette, diced 1 red pepper, 1 yellow pepper diced Large glass white wine 2 tsp…
SERVES 4 Ready in: 40 minutes 6 tbsp olive oil 1½ kg lean braising beef, cubed 4 cloves garlic, chopped 5 tbsp red wine vinegar 1½ kg shallots, peeled 3 pieces cinnamon bark 2 bay leaves 1 tsp whole cloves 1½ tsp aniseed (or fennel seeds or 2 star anise) 3 x 400g cans chopped…
Many of my childhood memories are of the simplest pleasures in life…like this custard dessert made for us by my mum’s elder sister Thia Frosa whenever we arrived back in Cyprus for the summer holidays. Peace and quiet reigned as I would spend an age cutting the spoon sweets into shapes to artistically decorate the…